Do Not Say We Have Nothing children's book as individuals

as individuals

and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity

Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition

and the author’s lived experience

but without the crushing gravity

Do Not Say We Have Nothing children's book as individualsMadeleine Thien's internationally acclaimed, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel now available in a beautiful trade paperback. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid twentieth century; and the children of the